Hello everyone

I'm not new to lucid dreaming. I used to have tons of them when I was a child, although they were always in the form of nightmares. I would realize I'm asleep, and use my real hands to force my eyes open to escape the nightmare. But now, I'm thinking about using this as a way to lucid dream ( Nightmare induced lucid dreaming?). Oddly enough, I only got these nightmares when I slept on my back, ever since then I've always slept on my side. Does anyone else have this problem?

I've been keeping a journal since March of 06, but still have trouble attaining lucidity. Happy dreaming everyone